Seafood

Key Seafood Buyers Support Vision for a Long-Term Sustainable Fish Supply

NEW YORK (May 8, 2008) – The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), in partnership with more than a dozen conservation organizations, today released clear, realistic steps companies can take to develop and implement a comprehensive corporate policy on sustainable, wild-caught and farmed seafood.

Chilean sea bass: Photo by Mike McCune (CC)    » read more »

June 28, 2007 -- WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) today issued the following statement after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that an import alert had been placed on catfish, basa, shrimp, dace and eel from China. The farmed seafood products were contaminated with drugs such as malachite green that are banned from use in the production of farm-raised seafood in the United States. On Tuesday China announced that it had recently closed 180 food production plants and that inspectors had uncovered more than 23,000 food safety violations.    » read more »

June 28, 2007 -- WASHINGTON, D.C— Today, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, released the following statement in response to the FDA’s countrywide import alert for a wide variety of farm-raised seafood from China.    » read more »